Adiumentum
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adjūment|um, -ī. (ad.juˈmen.tum) neut.
- Assistance; help, aid; appearing both in singular and in plural, both in abstract senses and concrete (usually of things, opp. adiutores, ‘helpers,’ but sometimes of people).
[adiuvo + -mentum. || The Anglicized form adjument is not in use.]
Adjective constructions
Ciceronian
magnum adiumentum; maximum adiumentum: a great help, the greatest help; chiefly in dative.
Ad Atticum
- magnus sum adiumentum
- magno adiumento nobis Hermogenes potest esse in repraesentando
- ‘Hermogenes can be greatly helpful to us in getting payment’
Ad Familiares
- sibi meam commendationem maximo adiumento fuisse
- ‘...my commendation to have been most helpful to him’
- meam sibi commendationem magno adiumento fuisse
- ‘...my commendation to have been a great help to him’
- intelligat meam commendationem maximo sibi apud te et adiumento et ornamento fuisse
- ‘...may consider my commendation to have been a great help and ornament to him at your place’
- ut intelligat Bruttius hanc meam commendationem sibi magno adiumento fuisse
- ‘that Bruttius may understand my recommendation to have been a great help to him’
- ut is commendationem hanc intelligat sibi magno adiumento
- ‘that he may understand this recommendation to have been a great help to him’
- valde mihi gratum erit ut intellegat hanc commendationem sibi apud te magno adiumento fuisse
- ‘I would be most grateful if you made him understand this commendation to have been a great help to him at your place’
- pergratum mihi feceris, si eum ita tractaris, ut intelligat hanc commendationem sibi magno usui atque adiumento fuisse
- you'd make me really grateful if you treated him so that he understands this recommendation to have been a great use and help to him
- pergratum mihi feceris, si curaris, ut is intelligat, hanc commendationem sibi magno adiumento fuisse
- ‘it'd make me most grateful if you'd see to it that he understands this recommendation to have been a great help for him’
De Officiis
De Oratore
- illa, quae mihi persuades maxima esse adiumenta potuisse in tantis tuis occupationibus perdiscere?
- ‘...those things, which you're convincing me to be most helpful, to have been thoroughly learned in such occupations of yours?
Pro Murena
- hic vero iudices et fuit in Asia et viro fortissimo, parenti suo, magno adiumento in periculis, solacio in laboribus, gratulationi in victoria fuit
- ‘this man, judges, was both in Asia and to that bravest of men, his own father, a great assistance in his dangers, a comfort in his labors, and a gratulation in victory’
- huic mirandum est magno adiumento Catilinae subitam spem consulatus adipiscendi fuisse?
- ‘Is it worth marvelling that to this man Catiline's sudden hope of striving for the consulship was a great help?’
omnia adiumenta
multa adiumenta; plura adiumenta; plurima adiumenta
Noun constructions
- adiumenta atque ornamenta
- et belli adiumenta et ornamenta pacis
- adiumenta hominum
- adiumenta doctrinae
- adiumento [ alicui ]: helpful [to someone], helpful [in achieving something]
- nihil adiumenti: no help
Verb constructions
- adiumento esse: be for assistance; i.e. be a help, be helpful
- adiumentum est; esse adiumenta
- adiumenta desunt
- adiumenta desiderare: to want or need help
- habere adiumenta
- affere adiumentum: to bring help
- adiumenta quaerere: to seek help
- adiumento uti; adiumentis uti: to make use of help
Associated terms
- Synonyms: praesidium, auxilium, solacium.
- Antonyms: detrimentum, incommodum, adversarium, impedimentum.
